Israelis shot and wounded near West Bank shrine

Minutes earlier, a Palestinian woman in her 70s tried to drive her vehicle into a group of IDF soldiers near Hebron, but was shot and killed by troops at the scene.

Later in the Gaza Strip, Salame Abu Jamaa was shot dead in clashes near the Israeli border, the enclave’s health ministry said. The suspected assailant fled the scene and army forces launched a manhunt.

142-a-07-(Neta (NEHT’-uh) Patrick, executive director of Yesh Din, an Israeli watchdog group, in AP interview)-“in a few cases”-Human rights worker Neta Patrick says campaigners believe violent images, many captured by amateur smartphone users, buttress long-standing allegations that Isaeli soldiers are mistreating Palestinians”.

As Palestinian-Israeli street violence surged last month, Al Araby Al-Jadeed daily accused the administration of jailing “dozens of (Palestinian) political prisoners on charges of resisting (the Israeli) occupation”.

An Israeli man was stabbed and seriously wounded Friday by a Palestinian at a West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem, the army said, AFP reported.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, a 23-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli security forces in clashes near the border with the Jewish state.

The latest unrest erupted in mid-September, with clashes at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site, and quickly spread. The protest comes as Israeli forces continue to kill and injure more Palestinians.

“This blood libel by the Palestinian representative exposes his anti-Semitic motives and his true colours”, Danon said in the letter, according to a statement from the Israeli mission. The knife has replaced suicide bombings, auto assaults & random shootings as the brand new device of selection for waging jihad on Israel, with leaders blatantly calling for Palestinians young & old to take up the kitchen implement & kill.

Palestinian youths threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, who responded with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas canisters. They alleged she did not intend to attack the soldiers. A Palestinian radio in Hebron has been shut down, and security against stone-throwers and crowds gathering has been stepped up. Her husband, Fouad, was killed by Israeli forces during the first Intifada.